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1 online resource (551 pages) |
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Voices of the Civil War |
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Voices of the Civil War.
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Secession; A Few Words upon the Right of a State to Withdraw from the United States; Part Two: War; Introduction to John Dooley's "War Notes"; 1. "Oh How Scared I Felt!": The Second Manassas Campaign, August 1862; 2. "Oh, How I Ran!": The Maryland Campaign, September 1862; 3. "Resting from Our Labors": Camp in the Shenandoah Valley, September-November 1862; 4. "These Brave but Doomed Foreigners": Fredericksburg, December 1862; 5. "Everything Is Excessively Dull": Winter Quarters, December1862-March 1863 |
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6. "We Slept in the Trenches": Coastal Carolina and Southeastern Virginia, March-June 18637. "Into the Very Jaws of Destruction": The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863; 8. "Vae Victis": Prisoner, July 1863; 9. "Still Hoping for Better Things": Fort McHenry, July-August 1863; 10. "This Selfish, Cold Hearted, Cold Blooded Enemy": Johnson's Island, August-November 1863; 11. "Learning How Little Food ... a Man May Live Upon": Johnson's Island, November 1863-March 1864; 12. "Anxiety about Virginia Affairs": Johnson's Island, March-July 1864 |
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13. "The Bad News Is Raging": Johnson's Island, August-November 186414. "I Am among the Number-Glory, Alleluia": From Johnson's Island to Richmond, December 1864-March 1865; 15. "All Is Confusion and Panic": In Search of the CSA, March-April 1865; 16. "A Bitter, Bitter Draught": Journey's End, April-May 1865; Part Three: Reconstruction; Lines Addressed to the Bronze Statue of the Goddess of Liberty Which Covers the Capitol's Dome, Washington, D.C.; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
Among the finer soldier-diarists of the Civil War, John Edward Dooley first came to the attention of readers when an edition of his wartime journal, edited by Joseph Durkin, was published in 1945. That book, John Dooley, Confederate Soldier, became a widely used resource for historians, who frequently tapped Dooley's vivid accounts of Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg, where he was wounded during Pickett's Charge and subsequently captured. As it happens, the 1945 edition is actually a much-truncated version of Dooley's original journal that fails to capture th |
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Print version record |
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Dooley, John, 1842-1873.
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Dooley, John, 1842-1873
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Dooley, John, 1842-1873 fast |
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Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 1st.
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Johnson Island Prison -- Biography
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Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 1st fast |
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Johnson Island Prison fast |
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Soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- Biography
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Irish American soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- Biography
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Prisoners of war -- Ohio -- Johnson Island -- Biography
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Irish American soldiers
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Prisoners of war
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Soldiers
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140262
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Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140264
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Ohio -- Johnson Island
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United States
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United States -- Confederate States of America
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Virginia
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Personal narratives
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781572338302 |
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157233830X |
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1280125047 |
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9781280125041 |
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